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We are delighted that Numbers for Good has joined E3M as a core partner, contributing expertise in social investment, and in supporting new models of outcomes based commissioning, to improve public services. The knowledge, skills and contacts they bring will add huge value to our work in supporting the growth of E3M members; in the wider impact we […]

Guest Blog from Christine Chang, Senior Director, Investment at Big Society Capital… One in four charities and one in three social enterprises are involved in the provision of health and social care support. In the current environment, the trend for outsourcing will continue, and with austerity there will be increasing pressure for cost savings and […]

John McMullan, CEO of Bryson Charitable Group, shares the challenges and opportunities for pubic service delivery in Northern Ireland… As we approach the Northern Ireland (NI) Assembly elections in May 2016, we are entering challenging and perhaps unchartered ‘economic and political waters’. Our politics, which are always challenging, are witnessing for the first time in […]

Social enteprise is about trading for a social purpose and using the power of business and the markets to achieve explicitly social aims. We’re seeing more and more of our public services being run by social enterprises in a wide variety of areas. But why are we seeing such a growth? Hear from Chris White MP […]

E3M is an initiative that promotes social innovation in the way we run public services. In particular, it supports the growth and scale and impact of social enterprises that trade in public service markets. This short film shows how the E3M members and partners work collectively to make a difference. There are over 30 social enterprise members […]

London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) looks after 3,500 children in 37 nurseries across London, and that number is growing. While the organisation still has charitable status, it became a social business in order to move away from a sole focus on grant dependency and build a business that trades in the ‘market place’, i.e. directly with […]

Dr Guy Turnbull, Managing Director of CASA (Care and Share Associates), tells us about his social enterprise and how it makes a difference. CASA is social enterprise that provides domiciliary care in the North of England. Its unique selling point is the employee ownership model: investment in, and business contribution by, the staff means a significantly happier […]

Chris Wright, CEO of Catch 22, shares his vision for reforming public services… It’s fair to say that we are now existing in a new financial orthodoxy – not austerity but the new economics. That is, tighter budgets are not going away and we will not return to a world of plenty in the foreseeable future. […]